From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] build: add make dist target (v2)
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:40:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5006BCB4.1010502@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120717191252.GC2880@illuin>
On 07/17/12 21:12, Michael Roth wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 01:33:32PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> Let's stop screwing up releases by having a script do the work that Anthony's
>> fat fingers can't seem to get right.
>>
>> Cc: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
>
> Breaks if there's no tag corresponding with the contents of VERSION,
> but that might be considered a feature (an alternative might be to
> assume it's a development release, use current HEAD for master, and append the
> short git hash to the version). Works well as far as I can tell though,
> and I made a special point to confirm it did indeed output a bz2 :)
Or just use 'git describe --long' to figure what the version is. This
way you can easily build a tarball for any git commit, and a release
tarball is just 'git checkout v$version; make dist'.
cheers,
Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-18 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-17 18:33 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] build: add make dist target (v2) Anthony Liguori
2012-07-17 18:50 ` Eric Blake
2012-07-17 19:12 ` Michael Roth
2012-07-18 13:40 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2012-07-18 13:55 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-07-18 14:07 ` Daniel P. Berrange
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